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on the following Sunday found our two friends among a number of other visitors admitted by card, looking down from the gallery in the spacious church. The service commenced as usual with the choir chanting in the original Greek the opening verses of the Johannic gospel, which contain in wonderfully few words the whole doctrine of transcendent philosophy, that is, the unreality of matter. This was followed by the regular special psalms, also in the original Hebrew of David; next came the extempore sermon. Not to weary the reader, we shall give only the finishing sentences.

‘The rule of Divine Order,’ said the preacher, in conclusion, ‘is that all relations of the kind specified must be those of reverence toward woman, and that the degree of delight in communion with her must rise or fall with the intensity of that reverence or worship. Thus, and thus only, do we really ‘crucify the old man and abolish the whole body of sin,’ namely, by creating in ourselves the New Man of Divine Order, whose code of theology is at once as simple as that of the nursling, and as complex as that of the archangel. The man regenerate by Divine Order needs no creeds and catechisms to be thrust down his throat; his wisdom comes spontaneously, according to